Hello there!

How good does this feel?

We’re in the month of March!!!!!

Yes, we made it, we’re in March and the only thing going downhill right now is the slide in to Summer. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

As you can see from the collection of fresh green’s and white’s that we’re channeling this month Spring, has well and truly sprung and the whole house is being given a lift. Inspiration is everywhere and the garden is just waiting to burst into life.

I’ve been inspired a lot lately. As the twins grow heavier in my belly and my mobility gets a wee bit more limited, shall we say, I have been hunting around me for things that make me feel great and give my spirits a lift.

Work on the Paddock area begins in earnest today with the installation of rabbit proof fencing made pretty by a hand-built white picket fence – photos to follow very soon. It grieves me not to be out there building the fence myself but the job is in my brother’s trusty hands. What I have been able to do is to plan the space and create an area that I hope will be heavenly in the Summertime. So the gardening books have been out all over the carpet and notes have been taken. Magazine pages have been torn out and stapled together and a plan of the space has begun to take shape. All of the plants and flowers have been ordered and some have even been delivered. It’s nice having something arrive on your doorstep that you can look at and see flourishing in all its glory in a few months time.

I was also thoroughly inspired by this work of art just yesterday afternoon….

A Single Man by Tom Ford was , quite simply, the best LOOKING film I have ever seen but also utterly, utterly sublime, warm, human and extraordinarily bittersweet. I felt the heat of the Friday night sun hit my face as the two gentlemen left the liquor store with the Tanqueray and cigarettes before reaching thier car. I could feel myself brushing past the orange trees in Charley’s house and could almost smell her perfume. But most of all I could see and feel everything that George Falconer was going through as if it were happening to me. That is the sign of good film-making. Tom Ford, I salute you and if you ever feel the need to put a pregnant lady in one of your campaigns I’m your gal due a distinct lack of bashfulness.

I feel a little pedestrian after all of that telling you to download my green screen saver and calender for the month of March as it’s not nearly as stylish as the movie. But that is why being inspired is so important. You use it as a mode of transport from one phase to another. I feel that I am leaving one phase of design right now and entering another. This is a good thing for a very pregnant woman to feel as it can sometimes feel as if I am treading water waiting for the babies to be born and then my creative life can be begin again. Not true. I can do whatever I like creatively, pregnant or not, and move in whatever direction I feel like……..as long as the folk around me don’t mind being directed from near the very large and comfortable chair I’ll undoubtedly be sitting in until the end of June!

JOKE!

This is a .jpeg version of March’s calender that you can save to your desktop.

Or if you prefer, this is a .png version.

Last months downloadable desktop calender was a bit pixelated for some of you so I hope this is better.

Tomorrow I’ll be back with my brand new giveaway. It’s a GREAT one this month and one that is in keeping with a great many articles that I shall be writing this month.

Have a great day and an inspired start to the month of March!

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